I Am Legend
Robert Matheson
RyR inc.1954,pp.,202 $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5115-1
Can you imagine being the last man on earth? With no friends or family. Robert Neville is the last man on earth. A virus spread throughout the whole world causing the whole world to turn into vampires. Now Robert Neville is harassed by these menacing vampires at every waking moment. He has to learn how to fight and survive against the creatures, but the vampires aren’t his greatest enemy. Time is the greatest enemy. Its now or never for Robert Neville to save the human race.
This is a great book about adventure and one man’s courage and will to survive. The author portrays a man with a drinking problem, but with heroism to try to save the human race. The author also flashes back in time to show what it was like, before the virus came.
I recommend this book anyone who likes to read. This book will grab your attention, by just the opening paragraph. I know what you’re saying,
“I’ve already seen the movie.” But this is better then the movie. I rate this a five out of five stars, and take a bow to this exhilarating tale.
By: Alex
Science Fiction Book Reviews
Fade
Robert Cormier
Delacorte Press, 1988, 310 pgs.
$7.95,ISBN:0-385-73134-5
Reviewed by: Roe
Fade is a teen fictional novel by Robert Cormier. Paul Moreaux is a thirteen-year-old French Canadian immigrant. He found out he has a new ability called Fade. His uncle taught him how to control this newfound ability. The power is transferred from uncle to nephew. “I have a warning though, if you fade for too long it will take over you and force you to do things you would never do.” This book also takes you into the future as Susan Moreaux. She is a reporter and she is trying to unlock one of Paul’s books to see if the story is true. Then there’s Ozzie who is Paul’s nephew, a kid with problems and has the ability to fade. It starts to take over him and it leads to death and destruction.
This book is a great teen novel with so much action that you never know what’s going to happen, and it has a little bit of horror mixed in. I recommend this book to anyone needing an interesting book to read.
Extras
By: Scott Westerfeld,
Simon Pulse, $16.99,
417 pages, 2007,
Isbn-1-4169-5112-2
Reviewed by: Lindsey
Aya Fuse is what you would call an “extra”. When you live in a world filled with technology and pure beauty, and you look normal, then you are an extra. Aya Fuse is a teenage girl with the dream of kicking an amazing story and becoming famous. That dream is far away considering her face rank is at an all time low in the four hundred thousands. And it doesn’t help that her brother is a famous story kicker with a face rank under a thousand. But one day, everything changes when Aya finds something hidden in the mountains, that could possibly destroy the world. What happens when she gets a ping from the famous tally Youngblood telling her to hide?
Scott Westerfeld uses great details and imagery in this suspenseful thriller that will keep you wondering what happens from start to finish. I recommend this book and the rest of the Uglies series to anyone twelve years of age and older. Extras, the fourth book in the Uglies series, is powerful and gripping you will feel the characters thoughts and emotions as they take you on an adventure through a different universe.
Code Orange
Caroline Cooney
Delacourt press, 200 pages
$15.95, 0-385-73259-7
Lucky for Mitty Blake, Mr. Lynch had started looking at everyone’s planners to see if they had written down their due date for their assignment. ‘”Due date for what?”’
Once again Mitty has forgotten to do his homework. His biology project is to write a paper on an infectious disease. Every weekend his family leaves on a trip to a house in the country, which is where he found an old medical book. In the book he finds an envelope titled scabs- V.M. epidemic, 1902, Boston. Mitty decided to check out the contents. They were actually scabs! Mitty put them back in the envelope and looked up V.M. which is short for variola major. Varoila major (pause for dramatic effect) is small pox. Mitty has handled small pox.
Caroline Cooney’s book Code Orange put a great picture behind my eyelids. I’m talking blue ray. I could see just about every detail as Mitty researches small pox. Does he have small pox? Will he be the one to bring small pox back to the world? This book had a great hook and I recommend this book to anyone who likes realistic fiction.
-Chase7
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Eager
Helen Fox
Wendylamb Books 2004
pps.280 $15.95 ISBN-0-385-74672-5
In the future, there will be robot butlers and robot workers to do all of the chores you don’t have time to do. But like any machine or tool, there are limitations, and eventually they become obsolete. The Bell family is having this problem when their long served robot butler, Grumps, becomes inefficient to their needs. They decide to keep Grumps and get another robot called EGR3, but this new robot isn’t like any other robot. Unlike grumps, EGR3 has emotions and can learn and understand things. This new model was programmed like a child eager to learn, so they named him Eager. But with child like ignorance, what kind of problems will erupt?
The author, Helen fox, writes Eager into the book like a person eager to learn a new world, not like a mindless robot. She does a good job in getting the reader interested in what’s doing on by giving Eager and his friends a sophisticated side as well as an enthusiastic side.
I recommend this book for anyone of any age; it’s not gender specific. It’s a futuristic book about robots and rebellion. The deeper in the book you get the more you want to read.
When Elizabeth Hall gets killed by a taxi, she finds herself confused in a place that is both like and unlike Earth: Elsewhere. This is where everything goes when it dies: Fashion, animals, and of course, people. When she arrives, she has some difficulty getting around and adapting to the various customs of Elsewhere. Having some help with her new friends and her grandma, she must find a way to cope with her new life.
Whether you are a fan of sci-fi/fantasy books or not, it’s still a must read. Once you start reading you’ll never want to stop. The ideas are so original, it seems as if it belongs in its own category. Elsewhere is packed with detail and will easily pull you into it’s pages. It’s a 9/10 and I would HIGHLY recommend this book.
Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
Eoin Colfer
Hyperion Books,2006,385pp.,$7.99
ISBN 0-7868-4956-8
The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer is the last of a great series called Artemis Fowl. Artemis Fowl is a fifteen-year-old criminal mastermind who is trying to take over the world. He has captured a fairy, rescued his father from the Russian mafia, created the smartest super computer, had it stolen, stopped a megalomaniac pixie, all while fighting off a goblin triad. But now he’s in over his head. Artemis is up to his old tricks and is trying to capture a demon. Except a French equal to Artemis threatens his plan. It is up to Artemis to reclaim the endangered demon to save them from extinction. Artemis faces many obstacles presented by Minerva, a Nobel Prize hopeful, who needs the demon in order to win and Billy Kong, who seeks the demon’s death in order to avenge his brother’s death.
Eoin Colfer changes the point of view many times throughout the book and it has an amazing adventure story. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes sci-fi, adventure, and fantasy.
-Nathan
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
Hyperion Books 2002, pp.277, $6.99
ISBN 0-7868-1707-0
The Fowl family is the richest and most thieving family in all of Ireland and maybe the world. The newest Fowl member isn’t so different.
Artemis Fowl, the newest member, is twelve years old. He is cunning and brilliant but only uses his genius mind to obtain wealth. Artemis has learned that fairies are rich with gold and recently discovered the locations of the fairies’ secret ritual sites. So naturally, Artemis tries to capture one to find out where the gold is. After many days, he finally catches one and holds it for a ton of gold ransom. But the fairies fight back.
Artemis needs to survive while he can still recover his ransom and become the first man to swindle a fairy. Artemis Fowl is a great adventure story. It also has some sci-fi and fantasy from the fairy’s point of view. This story has amazing characters and has a few funny parts in it. This is a fast read and very interesting. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes sci-fi, fantasy, and adventure.
-Nathan
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
Eoin Colfer
Hyperion Books, 2003, pp.309, $6.99
ISBN-0-439-57388-2
Artemis Fowl, a boy who has interacted with fairies twice before, is overwhelmed with happiness when his father returns and his mother reclaims her sanity. But Artemis’ father wants him to stop his devious ways. He obliges, but not before one last scheme.
Artemis calls for a meeting with one of the biggest businessmen in the world, Jon Spiro. Artemis tries to sell him a super advanced computer with fairy technology called the “C Cube.” But Spiro double crosses him and steals the cube. Luckily, Artemis encrypted it with an eternity code, a code with endless possibilities. During the double cross, Butler, Artemis’ life long companion and body guard is severely injured so Artemis goes to the fairies for help. They agree, but only if Artemis gets his brain washed of all fairy encounters! The Eternity Code, by Eoin Colfer is one of the best books I have ever read. It is amazing and whenever you think something will happen, the opposite happens. I would recommend this book to anyone who just plain likes adventure.
-Nathan
Robert Matheson
RyR inc.1954,pp.,202 $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5115-1
Can you imagine being the last man on earth? With no friends or family. Robert Neville is the last man on earth. A virus spread throughout the whole world causing the whole world to turn into vampires. Now Robert Neville is harassed by these menacing vampires at every waking moment. He has to learn how to fight and survive against the creatures, but the vampires aren’t his greatest enemy. Time is the greatest enemy. Its now or never for Robert Neville to save the human race.
This is a great book about adventure and one man’s courage and will to survive. The author portrays a man with a drinking problem, but with heroism to try to save the human race. The author also flashes back in time to show what it was like, before the virus came.
I recommend this book anyone who likes to read. This book will grab your attention, by just the opening paragraph. I know what you’re saying,
“I’ve already seen the movie.” But this is better then the movie. I rate this a five out of five stars, and take a bow to this exhilarating tale.
By: Alex
Science Fiction Book Reviews
Fade
Robert Cormier
Delacorte Press, 1988, 310 pgs.
$7.95,ISBN:0-385-73134-5
Reviewed by: Roe
Fade is a teen fictional novel by Robert Cormier. Paul Moreaux is a thirteen-year-old French Canadian immigrant. He found out he has a new ability called Fade. His uncle taught him how to control this newfound ability. The power is transferred from uncle to nephew. “I have a warning though, if you fade for too long it will take over you and force you to do things you would never do.” This book also takes you into the future as Susan Moreaux. She is a reporter and she is trying to unlock one of Paul’s books to see if the story is true. Then there’s Ozzie who is Paul’s nephew, a kid with problems and has the ability to fade. It starts to take over him and it leads to death and destruction.
This book is a great teen novel with so much action that you never know what’s going to happen, and it has a little bit of horror mixed in. I recommend this book to anyone needing an interesting book to read.
Extras
By: Scott Westerfeld,
Simon Pulse, $16.99,
417 pages, 2007,
Isbn-1-4169-5112-2
Reviewed by: Lindsey
Aya Fuse is what you would call an “extra”. When you live in a world filled with technology and pure beauty, and you look normal, then you are an extra. Aya Fuse is a teenage girl with the dream of kicking an amazing story and becoming famous. That dream is far away considering her face rank is at an all time low in the four hundred thousands. And it doesn’t help that her brother is a famous story kicker with a face rank under a thousand. But one day, everything changes when Aya finds something hidden in the mountains, that could possibly destroy the world. What happens when she gets a ping from the famous tally Youngblood telling her to hide?
Scott Westerfeld uses great details and imagery in this suspenseful thriller that will keep you wondering what happens from start to finish. I recommend this book and the rest of the Uglies series to anyone twelve years of age and older. Extras, the fourth book in the Uglies series, is powerful and gripping you will feel the characters thoughts and emotions as they take you on an adventure through a different universe.
Code Orange
Caroline Cooney
Delacourt press, 200 pages
$15.95, 0-385-73259-7
Lucky for Mitty Blake, Mr. Lynch had started looking at everyone’s planners to see if they had written down their due date for their assignment. ‘”Due date for what?”’
Once again Mitty has forgotten to do his homework. His biology project is to write a paper on an infectious disease. Every weekend his family leaves on a trip to a house in the country, which is where he found an old medical book. In the book he finds an envelope titled scabs- V.M. epidemic, 1902, Boston. Mitty decided to check out the contents. They were actually scabs! Mitty put them back in the envelope and looked up V.M. which is short for variola major. Varoila major (pause for dramatic effect) is small pox. Mitty has handled small pox.
Caroline Cooney’s book Code Orange put a great picture behind my eyelids. I’m talking blue ray. I could see just about every detail as Mitty researches small pox. Does he have small pox? Will he be the one to bring small pox back to the world? This book had a great hook and I recommend this book to anyone who likes realistic fiction.
-Chase7
_
Eager
Helen Fox
Wendylamb Books 2004
pps.280 $15.95 ISBN-0-385-74672-5
In the future, there will be robot butlers and robot workers to do all of the chores you don’t have time to do. But like any machine or tool, there are limitations, and eventually they become obsolete. The Bell family is having this problem when their long served robot butler, Grumps, becomes inefficient to their needs. They decide to keep Grumps and get another robot called EGR3, but this new robot isn’t like any other robot. Unlike grumps, EGR3 has emotions and can learn and understand things. This new model was programmed like a child eager to learn, so they named him Eager. But with child like ignorance, what kind of problems will erupt?
The author, Helen fox, writes Eager into the book like a person eager to learn a new world, not like a mindless robot. She does a good job in getting the reader interested in what’s doing on by giving Eager and his friends a sophisticated side as well as an enthusiastic side.
I recommend this book for anyone of any age; it’s not gender specific. It’s a futuristic book about robots and rebellion. The deeper in the book you get the more you want to read.
-Brandon
Elsewhere
Gabrielle Zevin
Square Fish Publishing Co. ©2005 Pgs. 276
$6.95 ISBN: 0-312-36746-5
By: Cammie
When Elizabeth Hall gets killed by a taxi, she finds herself confused in a place that is both like and unlike Earth: Elsewhere. This is where everything goes when it dies: Fashion, animals, and of course, people. When she arrives, she has some difficulty getting around and adapting to the various customs of Elsewhere. Having some help with her new friends and her grandma, she must find a way to cope with her new life.
Whether you are a fan of sci-fi/fantasy books or not, it’s still a must read. Once you start reading you’ll never want to stop. The ideas are so original, it seems as if it belongs in its own category. Elsewhere is packed with detail and will easily pull you into it’s pages. It’s a 9/10 and I would HIGHLY recommend this book.
Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
Eoin Colfer
Hyperion Books,2006,385pp.,$7.99
ISBN 0-7868-4956-8
The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer is the last of a great series called Artemis Fowl. Artemis Fowl is a fifteen-year-old criminal mastermind who is trying to take over the world. He has captured a fairy, rescued his father from the Russian mafia, created the smartest super computer, had it stolen, stopped a megalomaniac pixie, all while fighting off a goblin triad. But now he’s in over his head. Artemis is up to his old tricks and is trying to capture a demon. Except a French equal to Artemis threatens his plan. It is up to Artemis to reclaim the endangered demon to save them from extinction. Artemis faces many obstacles presented by Minerva, a Nobel Prize hopeful, who needs the demon in order to win and Billy Kong, who seeks the demon’s death in order to avenge his brother’s death.
Eoin Colfer changes the point of view many times throughout the book and it has an amazing adventure story. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes sci-fi, adventure, and fantasy.
-Nathan
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
Hyperion Books 2002, pp.277, $6.99
ISBN 0-7868-1707-0
The Fowl family is the richest and most thieving family in all of Ireland and maybe the world. The newest Fowl member isn’t so different.
Artemis Fowl, the newest member, is twelve years old. He is cunning and brilliant but only uses his genius mind to obtain wealth. Artemis has learned that fairies are rich with gold and recently discovered the locations of the fairies’ secret ritual sites. So naturally, Artemis tries to capture one to find out where the gold is. After many days, he finally catches one and holds it for a ton of gold ransom. But the fairies fight back.
Artemis needs to survive while he can still recover his ransom and become the first man to swindle a fairy.
Artemis Fowl is a great adventure story. It also has some sci-fi and fantasy from the fairy’s point of view. This story has amazing characters and has a few funny parts in it. This is a fast read and very interesting. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes sci-fi, fantasy, and adventure.
-Nathan
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
Eoin Colfer
Hyperion Books, 2003, pp.309, $6.99
ISBN-0-439-57388-2
Artemis Fowl, a boy who has interacted with fairies twice before, is overwhelmed with happiness when his father returns and his mother reclaims her sanity. But Artemis’ father wants him to stop his devious ways. He obliges, but not before one last scheme.
Artemis calls for a meeting with one of the biggest businessmen in the world, Jon Spiro. Artemis tries to sell him a super advanced computer with fairy technology called the “C Cube.” But Spiro double crosses him and steals the cube. Luckily, Artemis encrypted it with an eternity code, a code with endless possibilities. During the double cross, Butler, Artemis’ life long companion and body guard is severely injured so Artemis goes to the fairies for help. They agree, but only if Artemis gets his brain washed of all fairy encounters!
The Eternity Code, by Eoin Colfer is one of the best books I have ever read. It is amazing and whenever you think something will happen, the opposite happens. I would recommend this book to anyone who just plain likes adventure.
-Nathan